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Great, a DVD of Yes with the classic line-up, with the exception of drummer Bill Bruford, who I think was with King Crimson at the time. The main problem with this DVD is it's only 60 mins long and the sound quality is a bit like a copy from a VHS. Still, apart from all that we do get ... Read review

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Yes - Live In Philadelphia [DVD] [1979]

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The classic Yes line-up (Jon Anderson, Steve Howe, Chris Squire, Rick Wakeman, Alan White) ... more

playing some of their finest music: that's the
good news aboutYes--Live in Philadelphia, 1979.
The bad news is that the picture is mediocre, the
sound is awful and the content is a 50-minute TV
programme (minus credits) edited from a complete
performance. The concert opens with the
barnstorming "Siberian Khatru" fromClose to the
Edge, before the lightweight "Circus of Heaven"
(fromTormato) offers a delicate contrast, and the
pace changes again as Alan White unleashes a
powerful drum solo. The packaging claims the next
track is "The Ancient" fromTales from Topographic
Oceans, but it's actually a two-minute extract
followed by a fade to black.The remainder of the
disc is essentially Yes' standard encores:
"Starship Trooper", "I've Seen All Good People"
and "Roundabout", though it would have been nice
to have seen the show which preceded them. Yes are
in fine form and offer a spectacular light show to
match their musical pyrotechnics, but with the gig
cut to shreds and the appalling technical quality
of the disc it's hard to recommend this to any but
the most die hard of collectors. Try the much more
recentYes--Live in Amsterdaminstead.On the
DVD:Yes--Live in Philadelphiais a concert filmed
for a 1979 TV programme cropped to 16:9 ratio, so
that even anamorphic enhancement can't compensate
for the butchered visual compositions. One of the
purposes of DVD is to present everything in its
original ratio, not to reformat old programmes to
fill widescreen TVs. The picture also looks soft,
lacks detail and often displays a shimmering
rippling effect right across the screen. The sound
claims to be Dolby Digital 5.1 and perhaps,
technically, it is, but if so it is the same mono
TV soundtrack fed separately to each channel. Not
only that, but it is harsh, metallic mono with no
depth, definition or bass, reducing Yes' complex
multi-layered arrangements to an indigestible
sonic hash.Notably, no one from Yes has lent their
name to this DVD, so rock journalist Chris Welch
provides an introduction and commentary.
Unfortunately he struggles to say anything that
isn't obvious or banal, lapsing into silence for
considerable periods. --Gary S Dalkin


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Howe, Anderson, Wakeman, Squire and White

Advantages: It's Yes with Rick Wakemen
Disadvantages: sound quality dvd only 60 mins

Great, a DVD of Yes with the classic line-up, with the exception of drummer Bill Bruford, who I think was with King Crimson at the time.

The main problem with this DVD is it's only 60 mins long and the sound quality is a bit like a copy from a VHS.

Still, apart from all that we do get to see and hear yes performing in Philadelphea, USA in 1979.

It opens with Siberian Khatru, which is ok, and it then follows ...
...memorable. But after that, it comes into its' own with Starship Trooper, which has what can only be described as a contest between Steve Howe on guitar and Rick Wakeman on a portable keyboard instrument. This a definite plus point of this DVD.

I've Seen All Good People and Roundabout follow and are perfomed equally well.

What a shame the DVD is so short. (A bit like this review, I suppose).  ... more

bsoutar 04.04.2005
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